Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:18:51 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] New IDE/block driver for OCTEON SOC Compact Flash
 interface.
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> OTOH, CF support via self-contained driver is certainly a waste of code 
> since IDE core and (libata) are here to drive the CF devices as well. 
> What we need is a "normal" IDE or libata (at your option) driver.

A libata driver would be nice and probably easiest to do as you don't
have to pretend to be close to old style taskfile IDE for a PC.

I am not convinced there is no case for a 'dumb' small CF driver, but if
so the chipset code and the core code need to be separated as the other
requests I see for this are different embedded boxes wanting to keep
codesize down.

Alan
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